Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mikhail Bulgakov

Most bad," the host concluded. "If you ask me, something sinister lurks in men who avoid wine, games, the company of lovely women, and dinnertime conversation. Such people are either gravely ill or secretly detest everyone around them.

Mikhail Bakunin

There are but three ways for the populace to escape its wretched lot. The first two are by the routes of the wine-shop or the church; the third is by that of the social revolution.

Nathan Myhrvold

Researchers who examined the voting records of wine judges found that 90 percent of the time they give inconsistent ratings to a particular wine when they judge it on multiple occasions.

Nathan Myhrvold

Wine lovers have known for centuries that decanting wine before serving it often improves its flavor. Whatever the dominant process, the traditional decanter is a rather pathetic tool to accomplish it. A few years ago, I found I could get much better results by using an ordinary kitchen blender.

Naomi Watts

I always love being in the company of women. It's all about good conversation and great wine.

Mireille Guiliano

Wine is a living, breathing thing during its time in the bottle and in the glass. It is always changing, especially in the glass. A little oxygen can really open up and release the flavors in a complex wine, as well as mellow the rougher edge of immaturity.

Publilius Syrus

You need not hang up the ivy branch over the wine that will sell.

Publilius Syrus

Wine has drowned more than the sea.

Paul Prudhomme

I opened a restaurant that had nothing but California wines.

Paul Gascoigne

I'll tell you the truth; I had a double brandy before the game but, before, it used to be four bottles of whisky. Not any more. I was fine. I had a glass of wine after the game. But it was just a mouthful.

Paul Giamatti

I'm not a big wine guy. And bars, I never go to bars anymore. It's such a drag, man.

Padma Lakshmi

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.

Padma Lakshmi

If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

Padma Lakshmi

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

Padma Lakshmi

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

Larry the Cable Guy

I'm on the diet where you eat vegetables and drink wine. That's a good diet. I lost 10 pounds and my driver's license.

Pablo Picasso

I like all paintings. I always look at the paintings, good or bad, in barbershops, furniture stores, provincial hotels. I'm like a drinker who needs wine. As long as it is wine, it doesn't matter which wine.

Paul Claudel

Gentlemen, in the little moment that remains to us between the crisis and the catastrophe, we may as well drink a glass of Champagne.

Paul Celan

With wine and being lost, with less and less of both: I rode through the snow, do you read me I rode God far--I rode God near, he sang, it was our last ride over the hurdled humans. They cowered when they heard us overhead, they wrote, they lied our neighing into one of their image-ridden languages.

Kingsley Amis

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for.

Kingsley Amis

A German wine label is one of the things life's too short for, a daunting testimony to that peculiar nation's love of detail and organization.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.

Kid Rock

Politicians and music don't mix. It's like whiskey and wine.

Ken Livingstone

The problem is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

Martin Amis

Screw-top wine has improved the quality of life by about ten percent, wouldn't you say?

Flow wine, smile woman, and the universe is consoled.

Rachael Ray

That's a horrible thought. I guess cheese or wine. I think I might be too depressed to eat if I had to eat only one thing for the rest of my life.

Paulo Coelho

She wants to drink that man too, and then she can forget forever the cheap wine that you gulp down and that makes you feel drunk, but always leaves you with a headache and an empty space in your soul.

Peter Steele

So, I simply switched over to wine because it was not carbonated.

Pliny the Elder

It has become quite a common proverb that in wine there is truth (In Vino Veritas).

Pliny the Elder

In wine there is health (In vino sanitas)

Pliny the Elder

The best kind of wine is that which is most pleasant to him who drinks it.